It depends on the person and the job, and the company.If for example you've been slogging your ass off for weeks, unable to catch up on our life on days off, in need of time out to stop you blowing your cool.then YESGet out and ride - you'll work better on your return. Perhaps some guilt will help here.Just dont get too tanned

orbeas wrote:my hair grows in work time, should i take time off work for a hair cut?

HAHA when I had hair, I use to slip down to the barber in work hours to get a trim. In fact my first haircut that was required for that job we were all marched down and made to have haircuts in work time.

I don't believe that it's okay to take a sickie if you are not sick. I have never done it - perhaps that's why I have 384 days of accumulated personal (sick) leave. But as others have said, if you find yourself with a serious illness or have an accident then you could be in a difficult position if you've used all of your sick leave.

One of my work colleagues has just had 5 months off because of a return of breast cancer and is not coming back for the foreseeable future but still has enough accumulated sick leave to be paid.

Plus, my boss is very fair - he suggested I take 5 days off over the Christmas period without using annual leave - as time off in lieu

macski wrote:I don't believe that it's okay to take a sickie if you are not sick. I have never done it - perhaps that's why I have 384 days of accumulated personal (sick) leave. But as others have said, if you find yourself with a serious illness or have an accident then you could be in a difficult position if you've used all of your sick leave.

One of my work colleagues has just had 5 months off because of a return of breast cancer and is not coming back for the foreseeable future but still has enough accumulated sick leave to be paid.

Plus, my boss is very fair - he suggested I take 5 days off over the Christmas period without using annual leave - as time off in lieu

Anyone on an EBA has had their sick days factored into their wage. When they leave a company after many years it's unusual to be fully reimbursed for untaken sick days. People who don't utilise their sickies are therefore being paid less than those that do and the company they work for is rewarding their honesty by retaining a percentage of their wage. It's true that if your one of the lucky employees who's sickies continue to accumulate year after year (as oppossed to loosing them annually) you can use them as a form of insurance but you're still paying a premium for that insurance in that if you don't ever get sick enough to need them you'll be relatively disadvantaged financialy and that's a gamble you're entitled to take.

yeah, its not like companies monitor online forums, blogs etc etc. if I can offer some friendly advice, temper what you say online, particularly when it involves what amounts to what an employer can sustain as fraudulent behavior against them. its not if, its a case of when. remember, all you need to do is upset the wrong person and you leave yourself open to all your online behavior and comments being used to mount a very viable case for dismissal against you. don't think it will not happen, it already is happening, courtesy of the 21st century.

What I write on an online forum is irrelevant if I have a doctors certificate.

thecaptn wrote:I chuck sickies to ride all the time. I don't think it makes any difference to the company or my "workmates" and if it did I wouldn't care I ran out of sick pay years ago and annual leave so it doesn't cost them anything. It's not that I'm lazy, I even chuck sickies to do volunteer work. I work for a massive corperation, it's not a person, it doesn't care about me and I don't care about it. I think people oppose the practice out of some holier than thou, moraly pre programmed sheep mentality. At the end of my my life I'll be extreemly satisfied about the time I wasn't at work and even happier that I didn't make some rich invester richer. So I think its ok to chuck a sickie to ride and even unaustralian not to.

Gee, I wonder why.

master6 wrote: Moderators are like Club Handicappers; I often think they are wrong, but I dont want the job.

thecaptn wrote:I chuck sickies to ride all the time. I don't think it makes any difference to the company or my "workmates" and if it did I wouldn't care I ran out of sick pay years ago and annual leave so it doesn't cost them anything. It's not that I'm lazy, I even chuck sickies to do volunteer work. I work for a massive corperation, it's not a person, it doesn't care about me and I don't care about it. I think people oppose the practice out of some holier than thou, moraly pre programmed sheep mentality. At the end of my my life I'll be extreemly satisfied about the time I wasn't at work and even happier that I didn't make some rich invester richer. So I think its ok to chuck a sickie to ride and even unaustralian not to.

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